Viocare, Inc. — Department of Health and Human Services SBIR Phase II: Development of a fully functioning mobile location-based healthy dining locator tool calle
Viocare, Inc. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Health and Human Services.
Phase II SBIR prototype / development signal
- Phase II is where Department of Health and Human Services funds deeper R&D after feasibility. Incumbents with Phase II history are serious competitors on adjacent topics.
- Use this award as past-performance context and to map customer organizations for STRATFI/TACFI-style transition planning.
- Obligated amount $1,000,000 is consistent with substantial Phase II-scale effort; compare to related awards from the same agency.
- Amount
- $1,000,000
- Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NJ
- Period
- —
Description
Development of a fully functioning mobile location-based healthy dining locator tool called VioDine. The VioDine innovation include: 1) use of global positioning system (GPS) based mobile application to locate restaurants within proximity of the VioDine user, 2) nutrition information about the menus available in those restaurants, 3) information about the user's nutrition needs, preferences and previously identified barriers to fulfilling these needs, 4) a library of messages tailored to encourage choice ofhealthy options in the restaurant of choice, and 5) incentives for the user and restaurant to use VioDine.